Buried in the footnotes of the story of Mildred and Richard Loving, whose case struck down all interracial-marriage bans throughout the U.S., is the name of William Marutani, '53, who gave Asian-Americans a voice at a pivotal moment in constitutional history.

"Mild-mannered, lawyerly and with a genius for trivia, Richard Cordray, '86, is not the sort of guy you picture at the center of Washington's bitter partisan wars over regulation and consumer safeguards. But there he is, testifying in hearing after hearing on Capitol Hill about the agency he leads, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau."